There was a "pop" sound, and the ice water in the winter, without any regard for Yan Shenggong's identity and face, was splashed on Kong Yinzhi's face.
Suddenly, Kong Yinzhi was startled, woke up immediately, and shuddered along the way.
When he opened his eyes, he saw a face in front of him with a frightening smile. Subconsciously, he wanted to hide back.
However, as soon as he moved, his body was grabbed tightly.
Kong Yinzhi immediately saw it clearly. He was surrounded by Dongchang officers, all of whom looked at him with a ferocious smile, as fierce as they wanted.
"Mr. Yan Shenggong is awake!" Wang Erbiao, who was staring at him, stood up straight again and said with a sinister smile on his face, "Our family said that we want Mr. Yan Shenggong to taste Dongchang's methods, then It must be done. Don't worry, if you faint from the pain, there is plenty of ice water over there, which will keep you awake."
After finishing speaking, he took two steps back and sat on the Grand Master's chair. He stood with his legs crossed, picked up the tea brought by the Dongchang captain, and with that leisurely and contented expression, after opening the tea lid, he casually ordered: "Come on, Lord Yansheng will toast you and you won't have to drink wine as a penalty, just serve him well!"
The reason why Wang Erbiao is sitting here and watching is because Yan Shenggong is a key figure.
If you can get ahead in the palace and become the superior eunuch, eunuch Bingbi, you are definitely not a brainless person. Otherwise, he would lead his troops and kill all the Kong family in Qufu. If so, there is a high probability that he will eventually be buried with the Kong family.
Wang Erbiao certainly didn't want this to happen.
Therefore, in order to bring down the Kong family, we must seize the evidence of the Kong family's rebellion.
Killing an official to rebel is certainly considered treason. However, it can be said that the Kong family did it alone, and the Kong family did not know about it.
In fact, from the clues he has so far, the most he can blame is Kong Daxia, the magistrate of Qufu County.
If Yan Shenggong escapes this disaster, Wang Erbiao will not only worry about being retaliated against, after all, anyone who is a scholar is a disciple of the Confucian family. Moreover, he was not willing to accept it. He was forced to lose his family like a dog by the Kong family and almost died. As the eldest Duke Yansheng of the Kong family, how could he not pay the price?
And based on his experience, Yan Shenggong definitely knew about the killing of Dongchang's servants. In other words, without the consent of the head of their Kong family, how could anyone else dare to take action in private.
There is also this so-called civil uprising, with such a huge momentum, and the Kong family is not behind it, they really want to write their last name upside down!
It was also for these reasons that he himself kept an eye on this Duke Yan, determined to obtain his confession.
"I obey my orders!"
At this time, as soon as the stall owner next to him heard his words, he immediately loudly accepted the order, then pulled out a dagger and leaned towards Kong Yinzhi with a cold light.
I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but the stall owner holding the dagger didn’t just walk over in a big stride, but approached slowly. The dagger in his hand was still shaking, and the reflection from the blade hit Duke Yan Sheng's face, forcing Kong Yinzhi to stare at the gleaming dagger involuntarily.
He used a knife to cut his fingers until the bones were visible. Thinking about what Wang Erbiao had said to him before, Kong Yinzhi's fear seemed to be deep in his bones. He immediately started struggling violently and wanted to hide back.
However, the two Dongchang soldiers who captured him on the left and right sides were both big men from the north. They were very powerful, so how could he, an old man, struggle.
Just like that, seeing the gleaming dagger getting closer and closer, Kong Yinzhi's fear reached its peak.
The two Dongchang officers who were holding him suddenly lifted him up and pushed him to the table. At the same time, they grabbed one of his hands and pressed it on the table. They also forced his eyes to face that hand. .
The stall owner walked to the table, stood still, and did not immediately sharpen his fingers. Instead, he rubbed the blade of the knife back and forth on Kong Yinzhi's fingers, as if he was sharpening a dagger.
Wang Erbiao watched this scene with great interest. Suddenly, he saw that Yan Shenggong's feet were wet.
At this time, he was drinking tea. He couldn't help but spit out the tea in his mouth with a "poof" sound. His face was full of contempt. The dignified Holy Duke Yan was so scared that he wet his pants!
In fact, he really overestimated the so-called Yan Shenggong.
Mencius once said that one is born in sorrow and dies in happiness. This is an eternal truth.
Only difficulties, adversities, crises, etc. will make people work hard and think of various ways to solve problems one after another.
And if there are no difficulties, adversities, crises, etc., and people eat, drink, and litter all day long, people will be inert and will not force themselves to work hard, and will only enter the pig-raising mode.
The Confucius family in Qufu could not escape this rule.
Generally speaking, a family with a history of thousands of years must have a strong foundation. Because only by the continuous emergence of literary, military and military talents can the family survive!
However, the Kong family is an exception.
Because the Confucius family was blessed by their ancestors, and even more so by Dong Zhongshu, rulers of all dynasties used Confucianism as the foundation of their rule, thus raising Confucius to the level of a saint. Even if his descendants are completely free to eat, drink and have fun, it will still not delay their enjoyment of glory and wealth.
If other aristocratic families want to remain standing, they have to fight with various enemies; however, the Kong family does not need it, and no one will provoke the Kong family, and they will respect the Kong family high.
For other aristocratic families, when the dynasty changes, it is even more difficult. However, the Kong family doesn't need to. As long as they bow to the new ruler, they can already enjoy glory and wealth.
Therefore, it can be said that the Qufu Confucius family is different from any other aristocratic family.
The vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty could raise pigs, so why not the Kong family!
Now, for the Kong family, the army entered the city, the whole city was surrounded by officers, and there were fierce military leaders everywhere. They didn't care at all about the glory of the Kong family's ancestors, and looked like they wanted to eat people.
If Kong Yinzhi, who had been pampered all his life, could face this situation calmly and fearlessly, he would not be the first person in history to bow to the tail of money.
Just when the stall gently cut a shallow gash on Yan Shenggong's finger with the dagger, Kong Yinzhi was heard screaming like a killing pig, and shouted in extreme fear: "I Recruit, I’ll do it..."
Upon hearing this, the action of the Dongchang stall stall immediately stopped. The corner of his mouth curled up with a look of disdain: What Duke Yansheng is, he is not even as good as an ordinary civil servant!
Wang Erbiao was overjoyed when he heard Kong Yinzhi's confession, but on the surface, he remained calm and said lightly: "Transcript, remember, if the situation confessed by Yan Shenggong is not consistent with the situation our family knows, If so, continue to serve him well!"
"I obey!" When the stall leader heard this, he immediately responded loudly.
The sound was so loud that it frightened Duke Yan Sheng to tremble.
If it were an ordinary situation, such as if the Ming Dynasty's border officials, governors, governors, etc. came to Qufu with their troops, it would be absolutely impossible to torture Yan Shenggong.
However, this time Wang Erbiao led the team and the eunuchs came, so there was no such thing as politeness or disrespect, respect or disrespect. In his eyes, only the emperor is the greatest.
Of course, now Emperor Chongzhen and Duke Xingguo also have to worry about it.
In addition to this, the chief ministers of the cabinet, the six ministers, including Yanshenggong, once the decree is issued, in their eyes, they are no different from ordinary prisoners.
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The excitement in Qufu lasted for three days.
In the past three days, except for the Confucius Temple, all other places had been ransacked.
The wealth accumulation of the Kong family exceeded Wang Erbiao's imagination. However, he was very helpless. He could only look at the wealth, but he couldn't eat it.
Because the main force for raiding homes was the cavalry soldiers, and there were guards and supervisors in the army. Moreover, no one knows who, apart from the Jin Yiwei on the surface, is the Jin Yiwei secret agent secretly.
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The commander of the Jinyi Guards, who was the commander-in-chief of the army this time, Xing Guogong, strictly prohibited it and compiled the "Three Major Disciplines and Seven Points of Attention". If anyone dares to offend, military law will definitely be ruthless.
Therefore, Wang Erbiao had to turn his attention to sorting out the confessions.
It can be said that the entire Kong family in Qufu has never experienced, or even heard of, such a terrifying thing.
After only a slight scare, various confessions were made.
It can be said that the collected confessions include almost everything from adultery of a certain Confucian family to greed for money, seizing the daughter-in-law of tenant farmers, intrigues among fellow clan members, intrigues, etc.
Wang Erbiao read the confession and thought with great disdain: The Kong family in Qufu is no different from other families. They are of the blood of saints, but they still have men stealing women and prostitutes, and a lot of dirty things!
Concerning the conversion of private land into sacrificial land, the killing of Dongchang servants, and the secret incitement of civil unrest, the confessions were also connected together to form a complete chain of evidence.
Among them, the most powerful evidence is the confession of Kong Yinzhi, the contemporary Yanshenggong. Kong Dajia's bones were not very good, and he confessed quickly under torture in Dongchang.
To be honest, the Kong family actually had no intention of rebellion. Just because they didn’t want the Dongchang fanmen to find out whether their private land was converted into sacrificial land, some members of the Kong family began to boycott the Dongchang fanmen. Later, they found that the Dongchang fanmen’s investigation methods were becoming more and more intense, and they wanted to find out a lot of things. When problems arise, some people take desperate risks and first exterminate the mouths of individual Dongchang servants. Eventually, slowly and slowly, the situation becomes uncontrollable.
Inciting civil unrest was also the result of the Kong family seeing that Ming Dynasty seemed to be tolerant of this. At least the situation in Jiangnan was good. Even during the Suzhou civil uprising during the Wanli period, the person who took the lead was only released after being imprisoned for a few years.
Therefore, the Kong family felt that it was entirely possible to use public sentiment to force the court to abandon the investigation of the Kong family.
However, they did not expect that a person from later generations would fall in front of Emperor Chongzhen. The changes brought about by this could not be compared with those during the Wanli period.
